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9 Stages to Building a Robust And Rewarding Business

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Implement the key business metrices you will live by. Identify the three most important metrics your business must hit every week to achieve growth goals. Give constant feedback, and say “thank you” often. There are also many more stories of companies that pivoted too late. Stay in your personal sweet spot.

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How Great, Operationally-Focused CFO’s Can Transform Your Business

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What I love about my job is getting to see teams of super-early-stage companies develop ideas that while raw have potential to make an impact on the market. Clearly the founders and senior executives of a company are the most valuable resources and their time should be maximized on the most valuable tasks.

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Interview with Vanessa Dawson, The Vinetta Project

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The Vinetta Project (www.vinettaproject.com), a group which is focused on helping to accelerate the growth of female-led startups, announced a few weeks ago that it is working with P&G Ventures, the internal "startup studio" of Procter and Gamble on an effort to help female-led companies in Los Angeles. What is The Vinetta Project?

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Stem: Simplifying Payments For Creatives, With Milana Rabkin

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The company recently raised $8M in a funding from Evolution Media, Aspect Ventures, Upfront Ventures, as well as a long list of angels. How did you start the company? I spent a lot of time with companies like Kickstarter, Twitter, SoundCloud, Spotify, and Youtube to understand what these platforms were giving to creators.

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Joey Flores On Earbits' Life, Death, and Resurrection

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What is it to start up a company, and run it to the brink of shutdown�only to have it acquired and restarted immediately? We caught up with co-founder Joey Flores on the story behind the company's brush with death, and its recent acquisition by You42, which was announced last week. Joey, thanks for the time today.

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Interview with Scott Cannon, CEO of BigRentz

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Scott tells us how the company--backed by St. Cloud Capital--has managed to coax those equipment rental yards into the digital age, and how the company has tackled other challenges in focusing its business. Scott Cannon: We are an online marketplace for companies in the rental construction equipment space. What is BigRentz?

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Success Is Not Always A Straight Line, With Hamet Watt, Upfront Ventures

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We''d bee talking about it for over a year, and it hadn''t made any sense at the stage of development of the company I was working on at the time, but it''s now come to a good place where it made sense. Hamet Watt: I am going to be looking at innovation companies, with an obvious focus on technology companies.